The Wheel Spins

Ethel Lina White

Oldtown is a historic place where rich people live. The sisterhood also lives there. The group, known as the "Black Nuns", had healing powers. But in Oldtown, the killer works, and a series of murders plunged the inhabitants into blind, reckless horror.

Les Gens de Bureau

Émile Gaboriau

Les gens de bureau est un récit plaisant et en mme temps une une tres bonne satyre de ladministration du XIX siecle. Ici vous pouvez trouver les paralleles faire avec lactuelle ou reconnaître quelques collegues dans les descriptions des fonctionnaires. Avec le portrait dun jeune homme, Romain Caldas, Gaboriau réalise le portrait de différents types demployés et de leurs miseres. Est-ce que le travail dans ladministration publique a bien changé?

Looking Backward. 20001887

This is a book about a man of 1887, who turned out to be in 2000. It was actually written in 1887, and author Edward Bellamy predicts certain things, such as radio and credit cards. The main character discovered that all social class differences were erased, and there is a utopian society. He wonders how in the twenty-first century all kinds of music are available at the touch of a button. Credit card replaced the money. The author compares the 21st century and 19 in the novel.

The Adventures of a Suburbanite

Ellis Parker Butler

A city man moves to the suburbs with humorous results gardening, automobiling, and golfing become new avocations. The book The Adventures of a Suburbanite includes two chapters on golf: The Royal Game and Advanced Golf. The subjects of humor in this book are mostly the two neighbors opposing opinions about all aspects of domestic and rural life, the gardening, and a variety of slapstick troubles with an automobile. Why is the neighbor so obsessed with his car? Where can we find a good gardener? Should we have a Santa Claus at our Christmas party? Yes, this is suburbia... much the same today as it was in 1911. Find out!

Życie Henryka Brulard

Stendhal

Autobiografia Stendhala we wspaniałym przekładzie na język polski autorstwa Tadeusza Boya-Żeleńskiego. Historia losu pisarza. Szczera i intrygująca powieść będącą podróżą do słonecznej Italii.

Perkins of Portland. Perkins the Great

Ellis Parker Butler (1869-1937) was a contemporary of many big names in American fiction straddling the 19th and 20th centuries, but today hes almost completely forgotten. Butler, the author of more than 30 books and more than 2,000 stories and essays. His writing spanned more than forty years and his stories, poems and articles were published in more than 225 magazines. Perkins of Portland are amusing tales showing the effectiveness of advertising some rather questionable products. Perkins and the narrator partner in promotions directed at a gullible and willing public. Unlike most tales of the kind, with moralistic endings where the sharps come to grief, Perkins and Co. become wealthy and quite pleased with themselves.

Arsene Lupin. Dżentelmen włamywacz

Maurice Leblanc

Pierwszy z cyklu tomów poświęconych przygodom Arsenea Lupinea. Główny bohater jest włamywaczem i bawidamkiem, ale urzeka bystrością umysłu i nienagannymi manierami. To mistrz w swoim fachu błyskotliwy i piekielnie inteligentny łamie szyfry sejfów i niewieście serca. Okrada tylko nikczemników i złych bogaczy, a wspiera potrzebującą biedotę i otacza opieką pokrzywdzonych.

Life on the Mississippi

Mark Twain

Twain begins his story by telling of the Mississippi river and some of its origins. He describes several facts that gives the reader a little bit of information of its discovery. After covering the history of the river, Twain shifts to his history with the river. Growing up near the river created Twains dream as a child to become a steamboat pilot. Life on the Mississippi is no ordinary guided tour, for every page is expressive of the structure, style and high humour that is the very essence of Twain the writer. Spiced with Twains pungent observations and commentaries on the culture and society of the great river valley, the book is a wonderful collection of lively anecdotes, tall tales and character sketches; historical facts and information; and reminiscences of the authors boyhood and experiences as a steamboat pilot.